SO Cholet
| SO Cholet | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Stade Olympique Choletais | ||
| Seat | Choletais | ||
| founding | 1913 | ||
| Colours | Red Black | ||
| president | Benjamin Erisoglu | ||
| Website | http://www.socholet.fr | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Romain Revelli | ||
| Venue | Stade Pierre Blouen & Stade Omnisports | ||
| Places | 9000 | ||
| league | National | ||
| 2018 | 7th place | ||
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The Stade Olympique Choletais or SO Cholet for short is a French football club from Cholet .
The club colors are red and black. The league team competes in the Stade Pierre-Blouen , which nowadays only has a capacity of around 700 spectators.
history
The club was founded in May 1913 as Club Olympique Choletais . Around 1950 it adopted its name, which will continue into the 21st century. During and shortly after the Second World War , the COC began to make a name for itself beyond the region of origin. In 1946 and 1947 he won the championship of the regional Division d'Honneur , was in 1953, 1957 and 1958 champion of the West France group of the newly created highest amateur league and was then due to its game culture as the " Stade Reims of amateur football". In 1957, Cholet even reached the final of the French amateur championship , in which the SOC was defeated by US Maubeuge .
Even in its most successful sporting times (see below), the club has never succumbed to the temptation to raise itself to the level of its big professional neighbors SCO Angers and FC Nantes through financial “acts of strength” , and has thus been spared from bankruptcies so far. Only in the second half of the 1970s was there a need for brief support from the city fathers of Cholet.
League affiliation and achievements
The club has never had professional status and has never played in the highest French league , but was represented in the second division for a year ( 1975/76 ) , from which he was promptly relegated as the group penultimate. This season, SO Cholet had an average attendances of around 2,700 visitors on, welcomed in his first home even 5,500 paying spectators, but was able to consistently a significantly four-digit number of visitors in as a third division in the late 1960s and in the early 1980s Stade Pierre-Blouen leave .
In the cup competition for the Coupe de France , CO and SO Cholet made it to a total of 14 main round participations between 1933 and 2001 , with a focus between the early 1940s and mid-1950s and in the second half of the 1980s. In a total of five events, Cholet survived the thirty-second finals (1940, 1941, 1964, 1969 and 1988) and even reached the second round in 1939/40 . In addition, the COC initially achieved a highly regarded 2-0 victory over Stade Rennes UC . In February 1940, a few weeks before the German invasion of France , he was then defeated by the eventual competition winners Racing Paris in Saint-Ouen with 8-0, when his Sturmasse René Roulier , Jules Mathé and Heinrich Hiltl (together seven goals) were in the best of mood were.
In 2014/15 Stade Olympique Choletais competed in the fifth class Championnat de France Amateur 2 ; in this season he also managed to move into the main cup , where he reached the sixteenth finals. For the 2017/18 season, the Choletais were promoted to the third division .
Well-known former players and coaches
- Camille Cottin , coach from 1944 to 1948
- René Guhel , player in the 1950s and coach in the late 1970s
- Claude Klimek , 1982-1984
- Simon Pouplin , as a teenager, until 2000
- Jean-Claude Suaudeau , with Cholet until 1960, later French international
- Tamatoa Wagemann , 2007–2010, Tahitian national player
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1, ISBN 2-913146-01-5 .
- L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 .